Grants to Help Get People Back on their Bikes this Summer

Local volunteer-led groups, social enterprises, and other not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of up to £3,500 to deliver cycling events to get people back on their bikes this summer.

The Big Bike Revival Programme will support organisations across England to deliver a summer programme of activity that will encourage people who do not currently cycle to consider either starting or returning to cycling.

This includes people experiencing:

• social, economic and health deprivation
• people from diverse backgrounds
• those facing complex challenges

The programme supports three types of events:

• Fix Events – offers basic services to repair cycles and provides essential checks to ensure cycles are safe to ride
• Learn Events – offers instruction, training or skills for adults to learn to maintain or repair their cycle or learn cycle skills to help them feel safer when cycling
• Ride Events – offers led rides for adults to practice cycling locally

The funding, which is made available by the Department for Transport, can be spent on anything that supports the delivery of events such as staffing, promotional costs, equipment, consumables and volunteer transport.

For more information click here.

Don’t forget that SCVO’s Development Team offers a FREE ‘critical friend service’ to groups that deliver in Sandwell and support Sandwell residents to help you build a stronger case for investment from the funder! (If you are from outside the borough, we may still be able to help through our fee-based SCVO+ service). Drop us a line at support@scvo.info to find out more.